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What does hot-tempered mean?

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Adjective
  1. (colloquial, usually said of a person, but sometimes of an animal) Becoming very vocal or even violent when angered or frustrated.
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The Kodiak 450's 421-cc single-cylinder heart shows its hot-tempered personality by letting out a bear-like growl when under pressure.
Both were hard-driving, politically conservative, hot-tempered, and humorous.
It's not an easy romance, it's a real-life marriage between two very hot-tempered people.
Character wise, she is hot-tempered, bold, judgmental and jumps to conclusions easily.
His brother Stephen, several years older than he, was so unthriftily hot-tempered as to shoot his horse, a very fine animal, when it fidgeted.
As Hamlet was departing for England, Laertes, Polonius' hot-tempered son, arrived from Paris, seeking his own revenge.

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